* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.

The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

1773 — Captain James Cook explores the islands and names them the Hervey Islands.

* 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5 ( 2 vols ), London ( 1777 ).

* 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.

*, the vessel of Captain James Cook in his explorations.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook was the second of eight children of James Cook, a Scottish farm labourer from Ednam near Kelso, and his locally born wife, Grace Pace, from Thornaby-on-Tees.

But State Party Chairman James Gray of Albany said no, and he didn't mince any words.

`` But you must have heard it said that the drawing-room disappeared forever with the somnolent years of James and the antic heyday of Coward.

The association said it would post 24 hour guards at Gladden's home and at those of James Mining and Eugene Shiflett.

Patrolman James F. Simms said he started in pursuit when he saw young Stickney speeding north in Stewart Avenue at Central Street.

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

Love was briefly married to James Moreland ( vocalist of The Leaving Trains ) in 1989 for several months, but has said that Moreland was a transvestite and that their marriage was " a joke ", ending in an annulment filed by Love.

This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

In a 1908 interview with U. S. journalist James Creelman published in Pearson's Magazine, Porfirio Díaz said that Mexico was ready for a democracy and that the 1910 presidential election would be a free election.

Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington said:

Noted psychologist William James called the studies “ heroic ” and said that they were “ the single most brilliant investigation in the history of psychology ”.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

On another occasion Fleming said: " I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ' James Bond ' was much better than something more interesting, like ' Peregrine Carruthers '.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

James Dobson, a prominent conservative spokesman, said the Judeo-Christian tradition includes the right to display the following documents in Kentucky schools, after they were banned by a federal judge in May 2000 as " conveying a very specific governmental endorsement of religion ":

Lindh's attorney, James Brosnahan, said Lindh would be eligible for release in 17 years, with good behavior.

About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

Because of its Scottish theme, the play is sometimes said to have been written for, and perhaps debuted for, King James ; however, no external evidence supports this hypothesis.

* 844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Spanish rebels and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.

says the group who reported to the disciples the finding of the empty tomb consisted of " Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them " ( it is not said they all visited the tomb, nor exclude that some might have joined the group on the way back ).